Tales of things eaten & made in Brooklyn and beyond

indigo continuum.

And we’ve come to our favorite — and, last! — color dinner: indigo continuum, or black to purple (skipping true blue, which doesn’t actually occur naturally in nature). Favorite because it’s the greatest of the color challenges, and the most visually striking, and because it’s full of opportunities to use exotic ingredients like black basil seeds and squid ink. And other delicious things, too, like mussels and beets, blueberries, blackberries and grapes, purple potatoes and purple carrots, cured olives and Chinese mushrooms, braised red cabbage and wine, wild rice and black rice and black quinoa, purple speckled kidney beans, pinto and black beans. Really, it’s quite well represented, this end of the spectrum.